M:RtM is a BASIC/Hybrid 2D side-scrolling game I started a while back but have only really gotten around to working on now.

Plot
In the year 20XX, Biologic Space Laboratories encountered a mysterious organism known as "Theta" while exploring the remains of planet Zebes. Intrigued by its countless and fantastic abilities, Theta was captured and brought aboard the BSL station in orbit around the planet for further study. This proved to be a dangerous mistake. Theta's seemingly limitless capacity of growing and gaining new abilities lead to the near destruction of the station and its escape back to the Maridia sector of Zebes. Fearing its potential, the Federation called upon the only one they believe could destroy Theta before it becomes a threat to the universe: intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran.

In her greatest¹ 2D calculator epic yet, Samus must return once more to a radically changed Zebes to confront and destroy the most powerful enemy she's ever faced. Will she prevail? Or will she fall?

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Here's the title animations and intro to the game as I have them so far:


Very old and ASCII, but this is a screenshot of the game HUD. The game will be using a Metroid II style HUD.


I'm going to be attempting to learn me some xLib so I can have some fancier graphics than these


¹Utter B.S. Everybody knows DJ's Metroid games and Metroid Pi are the greatest calc metroid games ever 

Anyway glad you're back into programming. keep up the good work

What he said

Hope to see updates soon, I think there is some xLib stuff in Omnimaga's download section you could check out to help you with xLib, there's also some good tutorials on tifreakware iirc.

Wow I like it, especially the title part

nice work

wow, that looks great! can't wait to see the gameplay!

It looks great

Definitely a nice start up you have there.
I personally never started my games in a flashy way but I wish I would have.

As for the rooms issue, how I was doing it in mine is having a variable for the room first. (Room are all numbered based on position)
Then grabbing a matrix in a subprogram for what's actually in the room and loading the room with the real(2) function of xLIB.

I can't think of a string method with xLIB personally...

That'd work quite nicely, {AP}!
I could use one matrix for the map. Each cell would correspond to a room on the map, its value would be used to grab room data in the form of another matrix from a subprogram and load it with real(2).

DJ: Ah, mk. I'll try to remember that about tiles although I'll probably have a white background for a while until I can get a better grasp of sprite masking.

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Is there a way to get the coordinates of a given value in a matrix? For example, if the room value is "2", is there a way to find the coordinates of "2" in the matrix (given that no two cells have the same value)? Redacted: silly question was silly

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Started work on the room drawer. Here's a screenshot of it in action as part of a map exploring program:


Note that these aren't necessarily the final rooms. As I continue to expand and modify the map (and get a decent water effect going), they will probably change. But at least you have an idea of how the game will look 

Also, DJ/{AP}, how would I go about adding some sort of transition between rooms?